Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The structure of the s-genitive and the of-genitive: some theoretical preliminaries -- Chapter 3 Grammatical variation -- Chapter 4 Factors: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relation -- Chapter 5 "Variation" versus "choice" -- Chapter 6 Modern English data: experimental study -- Chapter 7 Historical development of the genitive variation -- Chapter 8 A diachronic scenario: the extension of the sgenitive from late Middle to Modern English - economically-driven language change? -- Chapter 9 Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 10 Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index